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A Mascot Project ( 4KCBWday2 )

Welcome to the second day of Knitting & Crochet Blog Week. Today's prompt includes this instruction: "Your task today is to either think of or research a project that embodies that house/animal."

I wrote yesterday that my 'house' for the week is "The House of Bee" and while preparing this post I became totally sidetracked by this 3 minute video which, for me, shows the awesomeness of nature (which I strive to understand) and mathematics (which I really don't understand at all). I am completely fascinated by things like this.

It should come as little surprise that my "mascot project" is The Beekeeper's Quilt (by Tiny Owl Knits). Not only is this project directly related to bees and made up of hexagons, but it is the project I have been buzzing back to for almost 18 months as we have a very 'on-again-off-again' relationship.

When I bought the pattern and decided to cast on, I had no idea how much this one project would teach me, including:

and perhaps most of all, patience, as it'll probably be a few more years before there are enough hexipuffs for a quilt, and I'm perfectly happy with that.

I'm not sure how much more there is to learn from this quilt but I'm still applying new techniques to it, such as knitting 3 or 4 at a time. Most of all, I love looking at it - the different yarns, textures and colours. Several of the yarns came from other projects and some are 'scraps' sent by friends I've met here on the blog which is also very special. So yes, this is my mascot project for the week but also probably for life.

17 comments

Hi Sarah, I'm a fellow Bee house member, and I think that this is the perfect mascot for our chosen house. Your pictures are lovely, I just love the beautiful array of colours. One day you are going to end up with a beautiful and very personal quilt. I love it.

Wow...I have contemplated buying this pattern. Yours is coming along nicely, very pretty. Did the pattern teach you all that or did you just learn all that from doing this pattern? I have issues with laddering also with magic loop.

I have no idea how you can handle more then one hexipuff at a time. My yarn gets so tangled up when I even try TAAT socks that I can't imagine doing hexipuffs like this. The yarn is beautiful! I am sure others will be envious of this when it is completed!

I love that you've mastered 3 or 4 at a time puffs! I have this project downloaded and queued but I'm not sure I'm up to the commitment. Maybe when we stop renting and own a house and I can stockpile puffs :D

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